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Darragh Flannery, Kemmy Business School, Economics Department, University of Limerick The impact of school closures in terms of learning loss or other education or labour market outcomes will most likely take years to assess accurately. However, a recent working paper by Zsuzsa Blaskó, Patricia da Costa and Sylke Schnepf of the European Commission’s Joint Research […]
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Michael Byrne, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, UCD Introduction The impact of Covid-19 on tenants in the private rental sector has been widely discussed in media and policy debates (see Byrne, 2021), but there has been very little discussion of its impact on investment in the PRS. This is an important […]
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Robert Cazaciuc, University College Dublin1 Dr. Stephan Köppe, University College Dublin2 Key points UCD CoCo displays Covid-19 related restrictions globally. It is aimed at the general public and journalists. Benefits are simple and regularly updated graphs to initiate policy debates. Limitations are lack of nuance and inadequate display of policy interdependencies. Introduction The UCD CoCo […]
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The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgency of providing adequate and appropriate accommodation for the most vulnerable groups within the context of strategies being implemented to curb the spread of the virus.
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The first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in Ireland on 29th February 2020 and the first death by Coronavirus on 11th March, the same day WHO (World Health Organisation) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a large section of the labour force who had been working in centralised locations to switch to home working. The switch to home working raises a wide range of questions about who can work from home and who wants to work from home; and about the consequences for workers’ wellbeing and productivity, to name just a few issues.
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COVID-19 has forced large numbers of workers to switch to homeworking. This report uses primary longitudinal data from two surveys of 808 full-time workers in the UK which were conducted before and during the period of COVID-19 restrictions. It examines the impact of the pandemic on workers’ homeworking preferences and on their self-rated levels of stress, well-being and productivity
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As urbanisation intensives worldwide (UN, 2019), the need to better manage, organise and connect towns and cities continues to be a firm objective for many municipalities. The built environment, as well as the social fabric of urban communities, are critical determinants of health and well-being for individuals
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Subsequent to the arrival of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of COVID-19, policy to limit the further spread has focused on increasing distance between individuals when interacting, termed social distancing, and limiting the frequency of interaction by preventing non-essential and large-scale social gatherings
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A.The Macroeconomy of Ireland Post Covid-19
